http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animation.html a complete animation gallery for science. Each animation comes with a written summary description, a narrated animation, a step-through tutorial (understanding the concept through a series of steps), and a quiz. There are a variety of main topics, each with several related animation modules. In the gallery you will find General Biology, Molecular Biology, General Biotechnology, Microbiology, Biopsychology/Neuroscience, Ecology, Astronomy, Statistics, Chemistry, and Environmental Science. There is also a Science in Focus section for animations that explain science topics that are in the news (stem cells, malaria, gene therapy, ulcers, antibiotic resistance, and anthrax). These are great for current event science conversations and understandings. http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/AlienSafari/AlienSafari.html is an interactive exploration adventure that encourages students to click on “life zones” around the world to find bizarre and extreme organisms that live on Earth. Students will also learn about what the extreme organisms reveal about finding life in space. As students explore they will learn about organisms that can live without sunlight, those with the highest radiation dose, those that are the most acidic, those that live the furthest underground, those with the strangest habitat and those that are the hottest.
http://www.learningscience.org A free and open learning community for sharing newer and emerging tools to teach science. This is a great website for all types of science resources. The only drawback to this website is trying to stay on task
Anatomy: www.visiblebody.com 3D human anatomy Free website but you do have to register
http://www.medtropolis.comInteractive White Board material. THIS IS AWESOME!!! If you want to show the human anatomy, visit this site.
http://www.innerbody.com Welcome to inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.
http://www.biologyinmotion.com/ Here you will find animations, interactive activities, and cartoons designed to make learning biology a richer, more engaging experience.
Virtual Dissections: www.google.com use google to search for virtual dissections.
Chemistry: http://www.chemcollective.org/
The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.
NASA, Earth, Planets and Solar Systems: http://www.wicked.org.nz/r/wick_ed/interactives/science.phpExplore the interactives about earth – what it looks like and what it’s made of, and try out the interactives about volcanoes and earthquakes.
DNA: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dna/This is a PBS teachers resource site. The DNA material is under the category of Health
Environmental Science and Earth and Space: http://classroomearth.org/ Environmental science website. Sponsored by the National Environmental Education Foundation. National Partner is the Weather Channel.
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/ An interactive map which can highlight Global Warming and other environmental concerns.
www.esa.int Great astronomy website. View current images of the sun, view mars from a webcam.....spend time clicking on everything, you won't be sorry.
Project Ideas:
Students could use Google Earth to show a close up of a place, and show the scale. For instance, they might start with a car
in the school parking lot that is 4 meters long. Then they zoom out and measure 40 meters in the picture, then 400, etc.
Groups of students create a treasure hunt in Google Earth with instructions to go
north, south, east, west, by various amounts given in scientific notation. The
groups would have some kind of marker placed in Google earth on the spot and save
the Google earth file. Then another group would try to follow the directions (using
the line tool) and would know if they did it correctly if they end up in the same
spot and find the marker.
Directions might look like:
Go N 1 x 10^15 nm
Go E 3 x 10^-12 Tm
Go S 8 x 10^5 cm
SCIENCE:
http://www.cffscience.wikispaces.com
http://paleobiology.si.edu/dinosaurs/interactives/dig/main.html Dinosaur Dig. Interactive website from the Museum of Natural History.
All Sciences:
http://www.fossweb.com/planetfoss/index.html I drive you crazy with "Copyright". Here is a site of science images taken by students that you/your students are free to use!
http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animation.html a complete animation gallery for science. Each animation comes with a written summary description, a narrated animation, a step-through tutorial (understanding the concept through a series of steps), and a quiz. There are a variety of main topics, each with several related animation modules. In the gallery you will find General Biology, Molecular Biology, General Biotechnology, Microbiology, Biopsychology/Neuroscience, Ecology, Astronomy, Statistics, Chemistry, and Environmental Science. There is also a Science in Focus section for animations that explain science topics that are in the news (stem cells, malaria, gene therapy, ulcers, antibiotic resistance, and anthrax). These are great for current event science conversations and understandings.
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/AlienSafari/AlienSafari.html is an interactive exploration adventure that encourages students to click on “life zones” around the world to find bizarre and extreme organisms that live on Earth. Students will also learn about what the extreme organisms reveal about finding life in space. As students explore they will learn about organisms that can live without sunlight, those with the highest radiation dose, those that are the most acidic, those that live the furthest underground, those with the strangest habitat and those that are the hottest.
http://allenteacherscff.wikispaces.com/CFF+SCIENCE
www.classzone.com
www.twis.org This week in science
http://www.learningscience.org A free and open learning community for sharing newer and emerging tools to teach science. This is a great website for all types of science resources. The only drawback to this website is trying to stay on task
http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_search.cfm a great site for science related multimedia
Satellite Tracking:
GoogleEarth has a satellite database that is interesting to see just how many "eyes in the sky" there are.
http://adn.agi.com/SatelliteDatabase/SatelliteDatabase.kmz
Some Google Earth satellite overlays for weather can be found here...
http://www.newyorkscienceteacher.com/sci/files/download.php?id=469&file=satellite.kmz
You can track satellites in real time here:
http://www.n2yo.com/
Interactive and Virtual Science Labs:
http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php
http://www.learningscience.org
http://219.94.96.174/fizik/virtual/www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/fluids.htm
Anatomy:
www.visiblebody.com 3D human anatomy Free website but you do have to register
http://www.medtropolis.com Interactive White Board material. THIS IS AWESOME!!! If you want to show the human anatomy, visit this site.
http://www.innerbody.com Welcome to inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100’s of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body. It’s fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?organs Interactive body website. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/webquest_orig/webquest_orig005.shtml Great webquest. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/ Nova's Cut to the Heart Companion Website
http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/muscle/mustut.htm Excellent online tutorial for human muscle
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/ Great virtual brain tour website
http://www.artnatomia.net
http://www.innterbody.com
Biology:
www.biology4kids.com Basic biology topics covered
http://www.biologyinmotion.com/ Here you will find animations, interactive activities, and cartoons designed to make learning biology a richer, more engaging experience.
Virtual Dissections:
www.google.com use google to search for virtual dissections.
http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00548/Dissection.html Virtual dissection of a salmon
http://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/game/ Virtual frog builder
Chemistry:
http://www.chemcollective.org/
The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.
http://www.ncusd203.org/north/depts/science/chemistry/periodic%20table%20webquest/periodictable_webquest.htm Webquest for periodic table
www.chem4kids.com Basic chemistry topics covered
http://www.edinformatics.com/il/il_chem.htm Interactive library with hundreds of resources
http://workbench.concord.org/ Molecular Workbench
http://mw.concord.org/modeler1.3/mirror/index.html Molecular Workbench Museum of Models
http://chemagic.com/web_molecules/alphaindex.aspx
http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
http://www.chemaxon.com/marvin/sketch/index.php A tool for building two dimensional molecular models
http://www.nclark.net/GasLaws Activities and labs for demonstrating the gas laws
http://www.chm.davidson.edu/vce/ Virtual chemistry experiments
NASA, Earth, Planets and Solar Systems:
http://www.wicked.org.nz/r/wick_ed/interactives/science.php Explore the interactives about earth – what it looks like and what it’s made of, and try out the interactives about volcanoes and earthquakes.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/50th/main.html
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasacity/index2.htm connects every day products to space
http://climate.nasa.gov/Eyes/eyes.html
http://www.stellarium.org/
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx
DNA:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dna/ This is a PBS teachers resource site. The DNA material is under the category of Health
Environmental Science and Earth and Space:
http://classroomearth.org/ Environmental science website. Sponsored by the National Environmental Education Foundation. National Partner is the Weather Channel.
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/ An interactive map which can highlight Global Warming and other environmental concerns.
www.geography4kids.com Basic earth science topics covered
www.cosmos4kids.com Basic astronomy topics covered
www.esa.int Great astronomy website. View current images of the sun, view mars from a webcam.....spend time clicking on everything, you won't be sorry.
Global Warming:
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html
http://www.eere.energy.gov/
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Grade 9 ONLY:
http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityproject/index.html River City Project. With funding from the National Science Foundation, we have developed an interactive computer simulation for middle grades science students to learn scientific inquiry and 21st century skills. River City has the look and feel of a videogame but contains content developed from National Science Education Standards, National Educational Technology Standards, and 21st Century Skills.
Physics:
Physics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/hph.html
Chemistry: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/chemical/chemcon.html#c1
Geophysics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/geophys/geophys.html#c1
Biology: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/biology/biocon.html#heacon
Virtual Physics Labs:
http://www.learningscience.org/psc3dmotionforces.htm
http://www.learningscience.org/psc3econsofenergy.htm
http://www.learningscience.org/psc3finteractionsofenergymatter.htm
http://www.polyhedronlearning.com/cengage/
http://www.colorado.edu/phet
www.physics4kids.com Basic physics topics covered
http://nsdl.org/resources_for/k12_teachers/ National Science Digital Library
Scientific Notation
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/cgi-bin/astro/scinote.pl Scientific Notation Practice--Interactive (follow the redirect, then click "let me try" at the bottom of the screen)
http://proton.csudh.edu/lecture_help/scinot.html Scientific Notation Exercise--Interactive
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
Project Ideas:
Students could use Google Earth to show a close up of a place, and show the scale. For instance, they might start with a car
in the school parking lot that is 4 meters long. Then they zoom out and measure 40 meters in the picture, then 400, etc.
Groups of students create a treasure hunt in Google Earth with instructions to go
north, south, east, west, by various amounts given in scientific notation. The
groups would have some kind of marker placed in Google earth on the spot and save
the Google earth file. Then another group would try to follow the directions (using
the line tool) and would know if they did it correctly if they end up in the same
spot and find the marker.
Directions might look like:
Go N 1 x 10^15 nm
Go E 3 x 10^-12 Tm
Go S 8 x 10^5 cm